If the average person spends 30% less on their household food bill, they’ll save money — and pay less tax and be a lot healthier.

Here’s the how and why of it:

Most of the food we buy is VAT-exempt; i.e. we don’t pay tax on it. But some ‘food’ products do carry VAT, including confectionary, most drinks including booze, biscuits and savoury snacks such as crisps . . .

The provenance of my weekly food shop? Birmingham Markets of course!

by Charlotte Gregory, Producer

I’m a Theatre and Dance Producer, as well as an Actor and Theatre Maker, who’s been based in Birmingham for 12 years. I like to think of myself as curious, and that I know this city that I’ve made my home pretty well. I would even call myself a bit of a foodie, so this project was a gift!

At the End of the Day

by Xhosa Cole

Before having met Kate Cooper I’d never really thought about the food that I’d used to put into my body. Of course I’d always been lectured about 5-a-day, 2 litres of water a day and that stuff but as far a I was concerned I was a invincible teenaged boy without a care in the world- as long as my stomach wasn’t rumbling I was happy!

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